Man, some people in here really don't get the point of Star Wars. George Lucas has said that Anakin fulfilled the prophecy several times. If anything, it would be better if these movies are much more ethereal and if the bad guy is now a Nightsister or a Force wielder, or some other practitioner of the dark side of the Force.

How would it be any different if the sith return than in our world when you kill 1 terrorist and another takes his place? etc

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Dude it's very different to be a guy who kills and terrorizes people than to be a guy who practices an ancient Satanic religion which it's knowledge and capacity to become one has passed from generation to generation. Once their gone, the capacity to become a Sith should die with them.

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Huh?

Remember when everyone thought the Sith were extinct? Like they hadn't been seen in a 1000 years?

No one could believe it, they basically said it was impossible because they got rid of all of them.

Qui-Gon Jinn: [describing his encounter with Darth Maul] He had all the lightsaber fighting capabilities and the moves of the Jedi, only faster and more agressive. My only conclusion... is that it was a Sith lord. Ki-Adi-Mundi: Impossible! The Sith are extinct! They have been for nearly a millenium. Mace Windu: I agree. The Sith would not have returned without us sensing it. Yoda: Hard to see, the dark side is. We must investigate further before drawing a conclusion to the idenity of your adversary.

Personally, I don't give a crap about the prophecy of the Chosen One. Prophecies are notoriously vague and/or hard to decipher, so it could easily be changed into something that allows for more Sith to play a role in the GFFA. The new sequel should definitely feature the Sith, they seem like the only group that has the necessary gravitas to truly challenge the Jedi. Additionally, any new threat who is identified as a Sith would gain instant credibility within the story and from fans.

...would you feel that the integrity of the saga so far would be undermined?

For me, it would almost trivialise Anakin's character journey (rise, fall and redemption) and would fly in the face of the prophecy that was harped on during the prequels.

It's hard for many to imagine Star Wars without some sort of arch-nemesis to the Jedi empowered by the Dark Side. They could use such a villain without it being an actual Sith, but might that be something of a copout?

Can the sequels actually get away without having red-lightsaber wielding baddies?

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One only needs to watch an episode of The Clone Wars to know you can have a darksider or lightsaber weilding villain who isn't a Sith Lord. Bringing back the Sith after the events of ROTJ is more of a cop out than having a villain who isn't, and just screams a lack of creativity on the writer's behalf.

Personally, having found them interesting in Clone Wars, I think the Nightsisters - perhaps one, perhaps more - would be a good route to go down in terms of villains in the ST, although not necessarily the only villains. They use the "dark arts", are involved in lots of scheming and intrigue. Perhaps a Nightsister might court the dark side after, for instance, locating Sith holocrons on some long forgotten planet. I can sort of see it in my mind's eye now. After the opening crawl, we see a lone ship descending toward a dark, forbidding planet, a brief obscured shot of the pilot .....

However, as I've said several times in different threads now, though: no cloned/resurrected Maul/Vader/Palpatine stuff in the ST, please. That would just be scraping the barrel in terms of storytelling. I don't care if that happened in the EU, I just don't want to see it. I think it would ruin Star Wars for me if they did that.

I get the feeling that no single villain will be a legitimate threat to Luke one-on-one, so it would make a ton of sense to have the new threat boast overwhelming numbers.

A sith army is just what the doctor ordered, I would say.

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Trouble with that is familiarity breeds contempt. Im already in Yawnsville when considering yet another "Sith threat", let alone an army of them. That has all the trappings of your typical "same ****, bigger pile" gratuitous sequel.

Have the sith in the background. They're not running the show, but their presence is noted. Make the villain either a corrupt senator that doesn't like the way the Alliance is handling things, or make it a vengeance seeking imperial officer who wants to create a new empire of some sort.
....or just make all the villains a bunch of Gungans. Reverse roles and whatnot.

Actually I think it would b out of place not to have the Sith or at least a Dark Jedi. That is part of Star Wars.
Would b interesting to see Luke trying to deal with a student of his falling to the Darkside & declaring himself a Sith.
But if ur going to have Jedi playing a significant role in the next movie, you need a significant Darkside nemesis. The Sith r perfect for that. But please no Daisyduke wearin clown face Nightsisters.